"Where is the bravery?"

When you observe the speeds and agility involved and the degree to which players, who are not armored up, find themselves in vulnerable positions, exposed to injury, I'd say there's quite a bit of bravery involved in playing "the football." Up close and personal, I think it's reasonable to say it's a significantly different game than what we absorb from TV.

Well well... Watching Christiano Ronaldo Captaining Portugal as you dopes try to out stupid each
#57 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Maybe you could try spelling Cristiano Ronaldo's name right, Mr. World Soccer Wiz. Maybeso next time, while we dopes are trying to out-stupid one another?

And you --- sarvis... I don't give a chit about your ---- opinions on anything.
#43 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Of course you do. It's why you have to respond when tickled, kiddo. Just can't control that itch, can ya?

You're posting to yourself again ... Nurse!

#39

Yup, you, Infantini, and Trump ... rest of the planet so clearly out of step.

"Ilk"
It's a funny word for so many here on the DR.
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LOL

I think this is what Trumpies call a "Trad Family."

My #25 directed to #23, who struggles.

Got your attention, Cletus.

Good. Hopefully you never come back.
#18 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
Dean Vernon Wormer
Faber College

I'm confident MAGAts think Trump is flapping on about real, live commies.
Problem is, neither he nor they have the faintest idea what a "communist" is.
Other than "The Other" du jour.

During the time Nixon and Kissinger were burning away lives seeking an "honorable" way out of the Vietnam War it was a common occurrence for that administration's flunkies to claim the US antiwar movement was funded - as in controlled - by "North Vietnamese communists." It wasn't, but at least in those days there were real people running around proclaiming they were communists. This latest Trump ploy to whip up the rubes is like eavesdropping on the writers' story discussions for Idiocracy.

It's like being around a gaggle of snarky middle school boys en route to perpetual goondom who think they're cool because nobody will associate with them.

The US staged a coup in Venezuela, replacing the authoritarian head of an authoritarian government with a new authoritarian head of the same authoritarian government. Along the way, the US designated itself the recipient of the revenues from the country's oil industry. This involves assuming certain responsibilities which are simply beyond the talents/abilities of the current American maladministration (which specializes in ensh#ittification and theft). Too bad bad for the poor Venezuelans, laboring under rapacious, repressive homegrown and foreign regimes.

"The Pirate is in jail."

I realize Trump has trashed the WH and ain't done yet, but being in the Executive Mansion is not synonymous with being "in jail."

What is Dystopia without gas spouts, crumbling vinyl, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rolling through the place?

I think "jaded" werks. I write, smiling as Clio might have late in the game, lol.

Pirates seldom return to fix-up a ship after they've done looting it.

"According to Nansen, 988,905 buyers of the $TRUMP memecoin lost a total of $3.81 billion. The coin's value dipped 97 percent from its highest price, dropping from $75.35 to just $1.76 as of Friday, the Times reported."

Next time a thirty-four times convicted felon (financial crimes), adjudicated sexual abuser, children's cancer charity ripper offer, six-time bankrupt so incompetent he failed repeatedly at operating gambling dens approaches you, asking for you to give him your money for an investment that's golden because he says so ...

#11
Bottom line: Steve Miller says you can withdraw your tongue from Trump's Depends in ... three ... two ... one ... now!

Republican Party rank-and-file grunts who haven't already figured it out need to deal with their membership in a wholly-owned subsidiary of a criminalistic organization.

I see the situation with the GOP as not at all unlike rge scenes in Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas when Paulie Cicero "saves" tapped-out Sonny Bunz's "Bamboo Lounge" by busting it out and, finally, torching the joint.

"Everything Trump touches dies."

Thanks to Rick Wilson for that pithy, all too accurate observation. And so it is now, with the US soccer team and one player in particular: Folarin Balogun
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No matter what happens in the games for the remainder of the competition, anything US players might accomplish from this point on comes with an asterisk explaining some nefarious goings on between FIFA's odious Gianni Infantino and the corrupt Trump. Same for whatever Balogun might do, b3cause that, too, must now labor under the burden of that explanatory asterisk.

Trump's ongoing ensh#ttification of America gathers steam.

Thanks, MAGAts, you built this.

The rot of the Dixie fixation for the GOP marked Nixon's route to the WH in 1968; Reagan really went to town with the yahoos. It's a rush to court the smug, hateful and most easily played, of which Dixie and those who "share the culture" garner and continue to hold so many dubious trophies.